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to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign'd my charge to you. Shak. The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied. Swift.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]

A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

s or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

To signify. [Colloq.]

To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to. The field is the world. Matt. xiii. 38. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Rev. i. 20.

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic.

at there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. Mac…

A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.